In a March 23, 2015 interview with the Colorado Independent, Hickenlooper stated,
“Kids that can be vaccinated should be vaccinated. There are these urban myths — and in many cases these are now suburban myths and rural myths — that somehow vaccinations increase the probability of autism or other unnamed maladies. But there is no science to support this. The science clearly states that having more and more people unvaccinated puts other children at risk.”